Crags Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2722 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Crags Campground is located just 10 miles from Bridgeport, California, at an elevation of 7,000 feet. The Twin Lakes area is close by, offering boating, fishing, hiking and horseback riding opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Robinson Creek offers good rainbow trout fishing and can be easily accessed from within the campground. Numerous hiking trails are in the vicinity, including the popular Robinson Creek Trail.
Facilities
The campground contains one group site that can accommodate up to 45 people, with picnic and serving tables, grills, food storage lockers, a campfire circle and ample parking. Several single and double-family sites, some of which are accessible, are also available. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Roads and parking spurs are paved. Robinson Creek South Campground is nearby, where educational programs are held on weekends from July 4 through Labor Day.
Natural Features
The campground offers views of the rugged Sawtooth Ridge, with craggy peaks topping out at over 10,500 feet in elevation. A forest of Jeffrey pines towers over the campground, offering limited shade. Sagebrush and summer wildflowers dot the area.
Nearby Attractions
Upper and Lower Twin Lakes are within walking distance, offering beautiful mountain scenery, boating, canoeing and fishing for Kokanee salmon and rainbow and brown trout. Twin Lakes Resort is just across the road. The rugged and scenic Hoover Wilderness Area can be accessed from the Twin Lakes area and offers additional trails for hiking and horseback riding.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservation sites will be held until check out time (12 pm) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the Campground Manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
This is Crags near Bridgeport, not Crags in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Be Bear Aware; Keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle (windows up). All ice chests must be stored and remove all food from area after eating; always keep a clean camp and do not feed any wild animals.
Reserved Sites will be held until checkout time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold a reservation, or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Please call the office at 760-932-7092 if you need to inform the campground of an arrival time greater than 24 hours after your arrival date, or if you will not use your reservation whatsoever. This campground also has FCFS (First come first serve sites- non reservation). Reservations are site-specific. Changing campsites after arrival is prohibited and will require cancelling the original reservation and paying cash/check for the desired campsite at the time of occupancy. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither Recreation.gov contact center nor the campground host/manager will be able to modify your reservation (change sites).
Everything else this campground posts · 10
One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site is included in reservation. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground. Extra vehicle must fit on the parking spur at the site.
Click here for more info about the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Pets must be on a leash and under the owners' control while in the campground. Owners are responsible for any damage the pet causes. Aggressive pets may be asked to leave the campground for campers' safety and enjoyment.
Fire Restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. Please check with Camp Host.
Do not build additional fire rings. Glass, aluminum, and food are prohibited in fire rings. Logs must fit within the fire ring. Chainsaws are not allowed. Fires must be extinguished completely with water and be cool to the touch before leaving campsite or going to bed.
Single campsites have a 6-person limit. If you exceed this number, please purchase two (2) sites and spread your group and equipment out evenly between campsites. This is to protect natural resources and minimize noise levels. Double sites are a 12-person limit. Triple sites 18-person limit.
Water disposal- Do not dump grey water on the ground or at the water spigots.
Falling objects- don't linger under dead, cracked or broken branches. Run if you hear cracks or snapping from tree roots, trunks, or branches (know that sometimes there is no sound and very little time to react). Report falling branches or trees to a Ranger.
Pass Discounts: If you use a pass discount you must provide your pass and photo identification upon check in or upon Camp Host request. If you received a pass discount for which you weren't eligible you must pay the difference in price upon arrival.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 22 of 27
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…are accessible, are also available. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are also available. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Firewood is…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Fishing
- Night sky · 119th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 2 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:56 UTC
recreation.gov lists 22 of the 27 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee of $6 per vehicle per night is due at kiosk in the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$50 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Reservation sites will be held until check out time (12 pm) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov C…” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 7
recreation.gov availability, read 15:56 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 22 mapped sitesAll 28 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 27 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FAM | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 129 ft | 600 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 130 ft | 659 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 130 ft | 788 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 139 ft | 718 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 98 ft | 812 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 726 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 153 ft | 785 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 73 ft | 789 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 73 ft | 747 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 91 ft | 610 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 540 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 84 ft | 624 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 78 ft | 569 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 019 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 78 ft | 625 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 559 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 022 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 113 ft | 532 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 108 ft | 423 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 108 ft | 477 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 112 ft | 372 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 112 ft | 480 ft | $30–$50 | |
| FAM | 027 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 149 ft | 407 ft | $30–$50 | |
| GROUP | GROUP | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 343 ft | 546 ft | $150 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 001 | type not stated | 384 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 0012 | type not stated | 794 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 002 | type not stated | 658 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 004 | type not stated | 694 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 007 | type not stated | 672 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 45 ft | yes | $30 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Robinson Creek NorthToiyabe National Forest · 1.1 mi
Robinson Creek SouthToiyabe National Forest · 1.1 mi
PahaToiyabe National Forest · 1.2 mi
Lower Twin Lakes at BridgeportToiyabe National Forest · 1.5 mi
Lower Twin Lake CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 1.5 mi
Honeymoon FlatToiyabe National Forest · 2.1 miFrom Bridgeport, California, take Highway 395 and turn south at Twin Lakes Road and travel 9.6 miles. Turn left onto the paved road across from the Twin Lakes Resort Laundromat. Travel approximately 0.6 miles, go across Robinson Creek Bridge and turn left into campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Twin Lakes, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 20°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 8°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Crags Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →